Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-09 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Well, perhaps we should use wording like this in graphics.xml: FOP always assumes a resolution of 72dpi on encountering pixel measurements, regardless of the output device, and converts all length measured in pixels in millipoints using 1/72 pixels per inch as conversion

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-09 Thread Clay Leeds
Greetings, On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:55 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: Darn, the mail server failed yesterday. Resending. And I thought it was just me... Peter B. West wrote: I think the problem is that pixels are not well-defined. In general, a pixel is an output-dependent unit. On a printer, a pixel

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-08 Thread J.Pietschmann
Darn, the mail server failed yesterday. Resending. Peter B. West wrote: I think the problem is that pixels are not well-defined. In general, a pixel is an output-dependent unit. On a printer, a pixel might be 1/2400 inch, on the screen, 1/96. The Recommendation warns about this in 5.9.13.1

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Bowditch
Christian Hattemer wrote: Hi, I was able to work around the object-too-large bug by using a larger page size. In the PDF the images have the wrong resolutions and look ugly. (Read on, it's a slightly different question than usual) Hidding objects that are too large is not necessarily a bug. The

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Clay Leeds
On Jun 7, 2004, at 2:13 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote: Christian Hattemer wrote: SNIP'd what='overflow stuff' The images are a bunch of line drawings and other illustrations from a website I converted into DocBook. The DocBook stylesheets include the images like this: fo:external-graphic

Image Size Calculations

2004-06-06 Thread Christian Hattemer
Hi, I was able to work around the object-too-large bug by using a larger page size. In the PDF the images have the wrong resolutions and look ugly. (Read on, it's a slightly different question than usual) The images are a bunch of line drawings and other illustrations from a website I converted